Choosing Single Cup Coffee Maker: You must know
There are a number of single cup coffee makers available in the market. This can be seen both as an advantage as well as disadvantage. Its advantage is that you can make your choice from a wide range of options keeping your lifestyle, budget and preferences in mind. Rich and Posh has a great guide on choosing right coffee percolator.
The disadvantage is that you might end up with couple of brewers and would find it really hard to choose the best one. Shopping perfect coffee maker as per your requirement needs some previous research which may help you while making decision to buy the perfect unit.
Determine Your Budget
Determining your budget is the first thing. How much you can spend or how much you want to? You can have the basic ones in range of $20. The higher ones would cost you around $100 to $200 or even more whereas the commercial ones can be more then $1000. The lower priced coffee makers last for only one cup of coffee and water needs to be refilled for the second cup of coffee. You will have to pay more if you want to have a coffee maker with good water holding capacity and capable of making multiple cups at a time without being refilled.
Types of Single Cup Coffee Makers
There are a number of coffee makers available it in the market. You might be familiar with plain coffee makers in which you need to first fill up water, and then place the filter inside follow it with filling ground coffee and then your coffee would be brewed within a few moments.
Below is the list of new coffee brewers present in the market.
- Starbucks Verismo Brewers
- K-Cup Brewers
- Tassimo Brewers
- Coffee Pod Brewers
Starbucks Verismo Brewer
It not only makes coffee but also makes other beverages of Starbucks such as cappuccinos and lattes. If you like Starbucks coffee and want to make the same drinks at your house then you should surely consider purchasing a Verismo Brewer. While the price maybe a little high, the quality and product is above none.
K-Cup Brewers
Keurig is the company which manufactures and its coffee makers. Little cups are used by having ground coffee beans pre-filled in them. All you have to do is just fill water in the tank and then place your k-cup in its position. Thereafter, press the button and within few seconds you would get a cup of coffee in your little k-cup. It’s clean, convenient and extremely quick.
Tassimo Brewers
T-discs are used by Tassimo brewers. Hot chocolate, tea, coffee are filled in each t-disc. The barcode which is present on label is read by a micro-processor when a t-disc is placed inside the Tassimo. The correct brewing time, beverage size and temperature are thus choosen by the brewer. This is similar to k-cup brewer, but the only difference is that the k-cup has simple brewing cycle as compared to Tassimo which gives it an edge while considering the overall performance.
Coffee Pod Brewers
These are different but to a certain extent similar to the k-cups. They look like filters of tea bags which are filled by ground coffee beans. Coffee pod brewers are cheaper than the k-cups. Selection of right coffee maker may be difficult, but one thing can be clearly seen that the new single cup coffee makers are convenient as well as simple to use.
Information by:
The Technology Behind Good Coffee - The New York Times
